Turn off WordPress’s own sitemap

Switches off /wp-sitemap.xml. Use it when an SEO plugin makes the sitemap instead, so search engines only find one.

Type PHP
Runs Everywhere (runs as WordPress loads)
Category SEO
Tested with WordPress 7.1

PHP

<?php

add_filter( 'wp_sitemaps_enabled', '__return_false' );

Good to know

Yoast SEO, Rank Math and most SEO plugins already do this for you.

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Turn off more: More features you may not need: sitemaps, trackbacks, automatic updates, pattern suggestions.

Install it in one click

It's already in the Snipfire plugin's library. Enter your site's address and it opens there, ready to install. It arrives switched off, and Snipfire checks the code and test-loads your site before you switch it on.

Needs Snipfire on that site and you logged in as an administrator. Your address stays in this browser; we don't see it. Get Snipfire free

Or add it by hand

Click + New and choose PHP.
Paste the code and give it a name.
Where: Everywhere (runs as WordPress loads).
Save and switch it on.

Works in any snippet plugin, or a child theme's functions.php. Without the safety net, though.

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